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Press Release: First holistic assessment of plastic pollution in the Caribbean

August 3, 2021

Announcing the first holistic assessment of plastic pollution in the Southern Caribbean. The study is the first scientific paper to come out of the ocean plastics research mission eXXpedition Round the World.
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